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Meh, I firmly believe mobile apps are the best passive income generators available today, and it's only going to get better. SEO and blogging is just a pain. If you want to go the blogging route, try to game Pinterest instead. A lot of money to be made there.

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> Meh, I firmly believe mobile apps are the best passive income generators available today, and it's only going to get better.

This seems harder — making apps is more time-consuming and a less common skill than copy-pasting pictures of cupcakes.

It also seems less straightforward — the concept of "figure out what lots of people are talking about, make blog on topic, stick ads on it and let Google bring in visitors" is pretty simple, whereas I have no idea what the equivalent is for apps.

> This seems harder

I think that's why it's easier to generate passive income.

I am not sure what this means. It's easier because it's harder?

You say that "This seems harder — making apps is more time-consuming". Which is true, making apps is harder.

Because of that, it's probably easier to generate income from apps because the market is not as saturated as niche-wordpress-blogs.

I am somewhat skeptical of this hypothesis. The market may be less saturated, but AFAIK also more competitive. A cupcake aficionado may read ten blogs on the topic, and Google can send lots of super-niche long-tail traffic if you rack up enough posts — but it's unlikely that many people will buy more than one or two fertility calculators in their lifetime, and they'll most likely just buy the first one they see that looks OK.

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